PRESERVATION 81 



as Emerson says and see how closely, 

 with the more limited means at our 

 disposal, we may attain to it in practice. 



It may also serve as some guide for 

 any would-be owners or lessees of 

 partridge - shootings, who are not well 

 acquainted with the business, as to what 

 points should be borne in mind in apprais- 

 ing the worth of a shooting. Our estate, 

 then, is of some 8000 acres in extent, 

 wide enough scope to make of it a little 

 world of our own, yet not of such size as 

 would render it unhandy to manage or 

 unwieldy to supervise. It all lies in a 

 ring fence, with no awkward projections 

 of land into neighbours' territory, or in- 

 cursion of Naboth's vineyards among our 

 own farms. 



The general lie of the ground is gently 

 undulating, with long, level slopes of a 

 warm and sunny exposure. On every 

 side the estate marches with other large 

 and well-preserved manors, and the whole 

 length of the boundary, principles of 

 'give and take' work to the mutual 



